as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
you're not making a syllable of sense
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Recent Examples of syllable
Poetry for Neanderthals for $25: Every card has a word, and your seemingly simple task is to get your team to correctly guess it within the time limit by speaking in single syllables only.
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Simon Hill, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
Meta saw that these representations — context, words, syllables, letters — all overlap during language production, peaking and fading in strength at different times.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 19 Feb. 2025
They are also asked to vocalize, breathing into microphones and uttering nonverbal syllables.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Six syllables that make a tremendous amount of sense together.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
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Simon Hill, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
Meta saw that these representations — context, words, syllables, letters — all overlap during language production, peaking and fading in strength at different times.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 19 Feb. 2025
They are also asked to vocalize, breathing into microphones and uttering nonverbal syllables.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Six syllables that make a tremendous amount of sense together.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syllable
Noun
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Continue reading … 'STEELE' THE SHOW – MSNBC host demands Democrats start giving a ‘damn’ about Trump, Musk in fiery rant.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
17 Feb. 2025
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Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
25 Sep. 2024
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Our driver, Stu, was a hoot and snuck in a couple of impromptu stops at Baldwin Street, the world’s steepest street, and the historic Dunedin Railway Station, an architectural landmark considered to be the most photographed building in New Zealand.—
Lois Alter Mark,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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The prolonged hoots and hollers that followed, so soon after the concert’s start, said it all: there were two stars in the house.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Great staff, great selection, not a lick of snobbery.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2025
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Duhaime says that's because of the Roman numerals of Super Bowl LIX (which sounds like licks).—
Bryan West,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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The lack of logic Trump’s fun-house version of justice may not matter a whit to voters, or alter even slightly their perceptions of the two major parties.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2025
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The last-minute Annie Oakley act does not alter that one whit.—
The Editors,
National Review,
30 Sep. 2024
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By finally publishing it in the party’s flagship journal, the inference is that none of the intervening turmoil has made China’s leadership alter course one iota.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
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The Standard & Poor’s 500 finished an iota higher, less than 0.1%, after surrendering virtually all of its early gain of 0.9%.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Syllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllable. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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